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What Does a Crooked Election Look Like? In the search for electoral fraud, researchers use forensic tool kits to detect statistical signs of ballot stuffing and voter rigging
Scientific American ^ | Oct. 30, 2018 | David Noonan

Posted on 01/14/2021 9:57:04 AM PST by ifinnegan

What Does a Crooked Election Look Like?

In the search for electoral fraud, researchers use forensic tool kits to detect statistical signs of ballot stuffing and voter rigging

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An even more basic challenge faces researchers who want to use forensic tool kits to analyze U.S. elections—getting the data. “The way elections take place and are administered in the U.S. is not really up to the quality standards in other countries,” says Klimek, who tried and failed to apply some of his methods to the 2008 election. “The data quality was not good enough.” In most states, access to voter registration data is restricted mainly to the political parties, the candidates and some companies that work with them, Mebane says.

After a 2016 presidential election marred by allegations of foreign meddling, the midterm contest looms amid concerns about voter suppression in Georgia and other states as well as unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud by undocumented aliens. The most unexpected takeaway from electoral forensics may be that it is easier to analyze Russian elections than those in the U.S. “It’s really not much work to do this kind of analysis once you’ve got the data,” Klimek says. “With the algorithms we are talking about, it can be done in a couple of hours.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Technical
KEYWORDS: analytics; electionfraud
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I excerpted the part that non-chase toy and tacitly says U.S. elections are not fair and open.
1 posted on 01/14/2021 9:57:04 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

bookmark


2 posted on 01/14/2021 9:57:45 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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"I excerpted the part that non-chalantly and tacitly says U.S. elections are not fair and open.
3 posted on 01/14/2021 9:58:30 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To sum up, elections are generally very easy to analyze for fraud. However, democrats have tailored our elections to be nearly impossible to analyze. The GOP didnt see this decades long slow train wreck coming?


4 posted on 01/14/2021 10:05:13 AM PST by robel
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In 2016, democrats claimed that Trump had the Russians buy FACEBOOK ads that were negative regarding Hillary. FACEBOOK ADS...

- because their OWN voters are THAT stupid - that a Facebook ad would change their mind...

In 2020, We ALL saw Donald Trump headed for a landslide right up til 11pm est, knowing enough voting was done.
We went to bed understanding this.

THEN, ONLY a handful of swing states somehow, simultaneously called for a STOP to the counting. They sent all Republicans home and waited.

3-4am - the vehicles arrived (from no one can quite say where) with THOUSANDS of votes - for Plugs Biden. We have VIDEO EVIDENCE of the workers scanning and re-scanning the same ballots over and over.

We woke up the next morning to find - lo and behold... Plugs had squeaked ahead and all the media and all of DC called it for Plugs.

80 million of us KNOW we were defrauded. Millions more know it as well but just won’t admit it.

If they don’t see the HUGE storm that will come out of this, they’re really crazy.


5 posted on 01/14/2021 10:06:38 AM PST by joethedrummer
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Whatever happened with the forensics guy in GA?


6 posted on 01/14/2021 10:06:57 AM PST by Phillyred
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Cue Jovan Pulitzer and his technology


7 posted on 01/14/2021 10:06:59 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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Bookmark.


8 posted on 01/14/2021 10:09:53 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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9 posted on 01/14/2021 10:14:37 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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"I excerpted the part that non-chalantly and tacitly says U.S. elections are not fair and open.

You can’t say that our elections are not fair because they are not open.

You can’t find out that they are not fair because we are not permitted to look (officially).

The powers that be will not permit us to present evidence to a court so we can’t say that they are not fair because they haven’t been ruled unfair.

10 posted on 01/14/2021 10:15:22 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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Just a warning, Scientific American went way leftard decades ago...
11 posted on 01/14/2021 10:21:30 AM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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The problem we face is that the traitors to the nation control the means of ferreting out traitorous behavior. The keepers of the evidence are the people who are implicated by the evidence. They will never be held to account because they are the ones who do the accounting.

Normally, people with decision-making authority who are implicated in malfeasance are asked to recuse from making decisions affecting them. That doesn't seem to be the case with election officials or Secretaries of State where suspected voter fraud has taken place. The alleged criminals are allowed to stop the audits that might find their criminality.

-PJ

12 posted on 01/14/2021 10:21:39 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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Make that 20,000.


13 posted on 01/14/2021 10:44:00 AM PST by gunnut
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“Just a warning, Scientific American went way leftard decades ago...”

Yes, absolutely. It’s not a science magazine anymore.

This article was written a few years ago when SciAm had turned leftist but was generally free of that bias. It mentioned 2016 and used a bit of biased language “unsubstantiated claims” vs “allegations” and “concerns” but it did mention democrat voter fraud.

“After a 2016 presidential election marred by allegations of foreign meddling, the midterm contest looms amid concerns about voter suppression in Georgia and other states as well as unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud by undocumented...”


14 posted on 01/14/2021 10:44:40 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Yes. And it seems the Supreme Court position is if states want to hold fraudulent elections they are allowed too.


15 posted on 01/14/2021 10:46:36 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I didn’t do the meme, but any amount will get Pelosi’s panties all in a wad.


16 posted on 01/14/2021 10:49:36 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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it seems the Supreme Court position is if states want to hold fraudulent elections they are allowed too.

Yes, even though the 14th amendment punishes states that "deny... or otherwise abridge" the right to vote.

The debate is whether holding a fraudulent election is an abridgement of the "right to vote". The voter did get to vote, but the vote didn't count.

-PJ

17 posted on 01/14/2021 10:59:52 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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Yes, absolutely. It’s not a science magazine anymore.

Too bad, too. I used to love reading it when I was a kid, my mom would buy me a copy when we went shopping at the grocery store.

But as I grew up I could begin to see the bias and it turned me off.

Leftists turn everything they touch into crap.
18 posted on 01/14/2021 11:00:36 AM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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Good one. Sums it up. Thanks.


19 posted on 01/14/2021 11:15:55 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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“ To sum up, elections are generally very easy to analyze for fraud. However, democrats have tailored our elections to be nearly impossible to analyze. The GOP didnt see this decades long slow train wreck coming?”
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The DeepSwamp obscures the data.


20 posted on 01/14/2021 11:23:20 AM PST by gasport (November 3rd was an event, not an election.)
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